(The Hosting News) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has reportedly agreed to a deal to write his autobiography for $1.5 million.

Reports from cnet claim Assange told Britain’s Sunday Times yesterday, “I don’t want to write this book, but I have to. I have already spent 200,000 pounds for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat.”

Assange told the Sunday Times that he would land $796,654 from his U.S. publisher, Alfred A Knopf and 325,000 pounds ($501,000) from his British publisher. It is also expected that money from international sales and would bring up the total to at least $1.5 million.

Source: Assange to Write Autobiography to Help Pay Bills

(The Hosting News) – OzeVision Web Hosting has recently gained access to hosting facilities at the futuristic Pionen Data Center in Bahnhof Stockholm through its hosting infrastructure provider ResellersPanel, enhancing its European presence.

OzeVision Web Hosting already has a presence in Europe through access to Bluesquare data center in Birkshire UK, making it possible for its customers to have UK dedicated server if desired. Adding to this capability is the state-of-the-art data center in Sweden which is situated in a cave deep underneath Stockholm and houses the Network Operations Center of one of Sweden’s biggest Internet Service Providers – Bahnhof. The data center is housed in what was originally a nuclear shelter and military bunker during the Cold War era. The facility still has the code name from its military days: Pionen White Mountains.The facility has 11950 sq ft (1110 sqm) of space and is located below 30 meters of solid bedrock right inside the city.

Pionen was completely redesigned in 2007-2008 to become the data center that it is today. More than 141,300 cubic feet (4,000 cubic meters) of solid rock was blasted away to make more room. The bunker was designed to be able to withstand a near hit by a hydrogen bomb. Backup power is handled by two Maybach MTU diesel engines producing 1.5 Megawatt of power. The engines were originally designed for submarines, and just for fun the people at Pionen have also installed the warning system from the original German submarine. Cooling is handled by Baltimore Aircoil fans producing a cooling effect of 1.5 Megawatt, enough for several hundred rack-mounted units. The network has full redundancy with both fiber optics and extra copper lines with three different physical ways into the mountain. Pionen is one of the best-connected places in northern Europe.

“In the Swedish data center, dedicated hosting servers have been placed where all the new shared web hosting accounts are created, alongside with backup servers and administrative servers. They all are in perfect sync with the software being used – to ensure a seamless hosting experience for web hosting clients.” says Khalid M. Syed, Director of OzeVisionWebHosting.com.

The clustered high-availability design of Pionen data center makes it ideally suitable for high end web hosting offerings like: dedicated linux hosting and virtual dedicated hosting.

Source: OzeVision Gains Access to Swedish Data Center

(The Hosting News) – Linux hosting provider www.A2Hosting.com has announced that they have upgraded to MySQL 5.1 Hosting (http://www.a2hosting.com/database/mysql-hosting) on each new web hosting package. MySQL is the world’s most used Open Source database. One of its primary uses is as the database backend for popular software solutions including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and many more. The primary improvements found in MySQL 5.1 include partitioning capability, row-based replication and an event scheduler.

Each A2 Hosting web hosting package comes with the award winning and easy to use cPanel control panel. cPanel offers a number of features that make it easy to manage MySQL databases. One such tool is PHPMyAdmin. PHPMyAdmin is used to create, edit, delete or execute statements within a MySQL database. Other MySQL tools found in cPanel are a MySQL database wizard and remote MySQL.

MySQL is often used with the scripting language PHP for web development purposes. A2 Hosting’s web hosting packages offer customers their choice of which PHP version they would like to use. In addition to the default PHP 5.2 with Zend Optimizer option, customers can also choose between PHP 5.2 with Suhosin and PHP 5.3. Users looking to change the version of PHP used with their account can do so with ease within cPanel.

A2 Hosting’s Operations Manager Tim Farmer commented on the update: “Our customers are serious developers with serious needs for stable web development tools. MySQL 5.1 is a great example and we support it”

Source: A2 Hosting Upgrades To MySQL 5.1 Hosting

(The Hosting News) – “This app is our latest tool in our mission to help busy sysadmins monitor just about any part of their IT infrastructure – anytime and from anywhere,” said Monitis Founder and CEO, Hovhannes Avoyan. “We\’re dedicated to making IT pros’ jobs easier in every way, and our new Android monitoring application offers yet a greater level of convenience.” For many, the Android Operating System.

For many, the Android Operating System is becoming the smart phone technology of choice. According to researchers The Nielsen Company, in the six months leading up to August 2010, Android was the top platform in the U.S., reflecting 32% of new purchases, followed by the iPhone and the BlackBerry platform, both about 25% of new purchases.

Monitis’ new application gives IT managers around the world who are using an Android device instant access to important data as well as up-to-the-minute reporting from Monitis’s market-leading suite of monitoring tools.

With Monitis’ new, downloadable Android application, IT managers and system administrators can access their Monitis data, take a snapshot of all recent checks, and see the details of each of the various monitoring tools within the Monitis suite. Most importantly, the new application includes access to both internal and external monitoring tools, giving IT managers visibility over their page-load times from multiple geographically dispersed locations, as well as over their internal server metrics such as CPU, memory, and more.

Monitis also provides iPhone, Blackberry and Symbian device users web mobile access to IT monitoring data and reporting.

At no cost to customers, the new Monitis Android application can be downloaded from the Google Android Market or from Monitis portal.

About Monitis’s All-in-One Monitoring Platform

Monitis is the first service founded to provide All-in-One Monitoring from the Cloud for sysadmins and IT managers. It is leading a new era of systems management tools – the Cloud generation. Monitis consolidates back-end server and network monitoring, application monitoring, website remote uptime and performance monitoring, and cloud infrastructure monitoring in a central monitoring service. The platform is easy to use and extend via modern API, and may be used for managing all kinds of IT assets, from performance monitoring and fault detection to trend analysis and graphing. Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system’s health and performance.

About Monitis

Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution based 100% in the Cloud. Besides Monitis’ enthusiastic and loyal user base of 60,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions, Monitis has won rave reviews from the technology analyst community, such as “Most Innovative Start-Up? from The 451 Group, a listing in OnDemand 100, a ranking by Morgan Stanley, KPMG, and AlwaysOn, of 100 top private companies globally.

Monitis was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned IT developers fed-up and tired of the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis’s team of IT professionals has extensive experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups. Monitis employs a global workforce and enjoys a robust average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

Source: Monitis Debuts Android Monitoring App

(The Hosting News) – Vinimaya, Inc., provider of innovative solutions and services to improve the B2B e-Procurement buying experience, today announced general availability of the SmartRank Analytics™ module. SmartRank Analytics™, a patent-pending module within the Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ suite, is a sophisticated reporting tool that enables companies to improve e-Procurement effectiveness by understanding end-user search criteria and using that information to effectively prioritize search result rankings. “Most ERPs and stand-alone e

“Most ERPs and stand-alone e-Procurement solutions allow companies to display data from completed transactions. This is helpful from a spend analysis standpoint, but does nothing to improve adoption or enforce compliance to preferred suppliers or items,” said Mike Precia, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Vinimaya, Inc. “With SmartRank Analytics™, our clients gain visibility into user behavior. This information can then be used to identify and anticipate search trends and drive end-user demand to preferred suppliers,” Precia explained.

SmartRank Analytics™ was designed to help strategic sourcing and procurement professionals at Fortune 1000 companies:

• Mine Search and Shopping Data: Determine who is searching for what, from which suppliers; find out which supplier catalogs bring results; discover which categories are being searched, by whom; analyze failed searches to identify gaps in supplier coverage.
• Prioritize Search Results: Prioritize search result rankings to drive end-user purchase decisions to best value items and suppliers.
• Create & Save Custom Reports: Develop custom report templates for the top data inquiries. Run reports automatically and export results as to user-friendly formats.

“SmartRank Analytics™ is a game-changing enhancement to strategic sourcing for large organizations,” stated John Hutchinson, President, Vinimaya, Inc. “By transparently influencing user behavior, SmartRank Analytics™ ensures best-value purchasing while maintaining the superior end-user shopping experience Vinimaya clients expect.”

For more information regarding SmartRank Analytics™ and the other Vinimaya SmartModules™ please visit http://bit.ly/h7PgSu or and register to view a recording of Vinimaya’s Improving e-Procurement Webinar Series: “AMR Research Presents: Achieving Marketplace 2.0 — Improving Productivity & End-User Satisfaction with Private, Virtual Procurement Marketplaces.”

About Vinimaya, Inc.

Vinimaya, Inc. is a privately held software solutions company that provides innovative e-Procurement Catalog and B2B Shopping solutions for both buyers and suppliers based on their patented Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ platform. Vinimaya products are seamlessly integrated with systems from Ariba, SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft among others and are used by global companies such as 3M, Alcoa, Sunoco, Agilent Technologies, and Corning, Inc. Vinimaya is a Vora Group company with offices in Cincinnati; Shelton, CT; and Bangalore, India. For more information please visit www.vinimaya.com or call 888-618-8634.

Source: Vinimaya Releases SmartRank Analytics™ Module

(The Hosting News) – Namosofts Co., Ltd., an innovative provider of consumer software, today further completes its data recovery solution line by releasing its flagship new item – Namosofts Data Recovery 12.0.0.4. As a software producer specialized in data recvery field, Namosofts is committed to providing customers with cost-effective utilities, which are designed on the aims of relieving people’s headache when encountering data loss within minutes.

Namosofts, the innovative and dedicated data recovery software provider, adds new feature —quick search to Namosofts Data Recovery , which means that you will be able to find exactly the lost file you need by file extension, file date, file size, and even file name, making it a more efficient and easy-to-use data recovery software.

Namosofts Data Recovery is comprehensive data recovery software to recover data lost due to accidental deleting, formatting, virus infection, improper operation, unexpected power failure, and other unknown reasons. With Namosofts Data Recovery, you’re able to find and recover any lost or deleted data, including files, images, emails, movies, etc., from your hard drive or secondary storage devices. You can find your lost partitions as well as the lost data on them. Its user-friendly design and fast speed make it a perfect tool to recover data. It can recover data from lost, deleted, logical corrupted and formatted hard drive with NTFS, FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems.

Key Features of Namosofts Data Recovery:
Support almost all file systems including NTFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32.
Support storage media like, USB flash drives, memory cards, and iPods, etc.
Preview the pictures before recovering them back.
AccessDatabase(.mdb)files,Word(.doc)files, Excel(.xls)files,PowerPoint(.ppt)files,Zip(,zip/.rar)files.
A powerful rile recovery tool
Recover deleted files and folders
Recover deleted partitions
Perform batch file recovery
A simple and user-friendly interface
Free lifetime updates

When will you need it?
Files are accidentally deleted
Files are lost due to software failure
Files are lost due to virus attack
System crash
Hard drive formatting
Files are lost with unknown reasons
Files are emptied from the recycle bin

Pricing and Availability
Namosofts Data Recovery for Mac is now available at www.namosofts.com. Competitively priced is US$49.99 (5.67MB) for a single user license. For free trial download, please visit http://www.namosofts.com/

About Namosofts Co., Ltd.:
Namosofts is a world professional developer in the field of applications for data recovery, computer forensics and Windows system utilities. The company was brought into being in year 2010 as Namosofts Co., Ltd.

We strive to provide excellent software solutions for our clients and back our software range with a full money back guarantee. Our main motive is to provide easy to use software tools for data recovery and repairing the corrupted files. Our customer service representatives work very hard in providing the fastest, most convenient and cost-effective solutions to clients. Your ideas and suggestions are warmly welcomed anytime. We are always motivated by your thoughtful suggestions, and will keep on moving and developing more and more professional software in return for your kind support.

The data recovery engineers at Namosofts are highly proficient in recovering data from the varied levels of data storage servers which includes RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk) Servers, Data Recovery, File Recovery, Photo Recovery, Email Recovery, Hard Drive Recovery, Word Recovery, Excel Recovery and PPT Recovery. So many options for the customers to select exactly the one they need.

Source: Namosofts Announces New Release of Data Recovery

(The Hosting News) – Siemon, a global leader in network infrastructure, announces the launch of its LockIT LC optical fiber adapter lock. Joining Siemon’s LockIT line of secure network connectivity, this new, tamper-proof adapter lock protects against unauthorized access to unused LC ports. The adapter locks require no special connectivity and can be utilized to secure nearly any LC optical fiber-based network infrastructure. The LockIT system is designed to provide physical layer security without adding complexity or impacting overall functionality and density.

The LockIT adapter lock snaps securely into any industry-standard LC port, blocking cord access and preventing tampering. Removable only with a specially designed key, the lock fits flush within the port, providing full access to adjacent ports regardless of density, and it is brightly colored to allow network personnel to quickly identify locked ports. These new secure components are system and cabling performance independent, allowing it to secure any active equipment LC port, or passive LC patching, plug and play or work area port..

The Siemon LockIT product family also includes a comprehensive line of secure copper RJ-45 network connectivity, including a tamper-proof RJ45 outlet lock and lockable patch cords in shielded and UTP 10Gb/s category 6A and category 6 configurations. The LockIT RJ-45 copper outlet lock, patch cord and new LC fiber adapter lock all utilize the same universal key, included with the system.

“The obvious benefit is a very cost-effective and easily-implemented deterrent against malicious access to the network through unsecured connectivity,” explained Tony Veatch, Siemon Director of Product Management. “But LockIT is also an excellent way to protect against accidental connectivity errors, acting like a ‘lock-out/tag-out’ system for the network infrastructure. We see great interest in such a solution in public areas including conference rooms, airports and classrooms. This simple, effective product is suitable for industries such as transportation, finance, retail, hospitality, and education, as well as in mission critical data center applications.”

To learn more about Siemon’s LockIT system, visit http://www.siemon.com/go/lockit

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Join Siemon on Facebook: http://www.siemon.com/go/facebook

About Siemon

Established in 1903, Siemon is an industry leader specializing in the manufacture and innovation of high quality, high-performance network cabling solutions. Headquartered in Connecticut, USA, with global offices, manufacturing and service partners throughout the world, Siemon offers the most comprehensive suite of copper (unshielded and shielded twisted-pair) category 5e, category 6 (Class E), category 6A (Class EA) and category 7/7A (Class F/FA), and multimode and singlemode optical fiber cabling systems available. With over 400 patents specific to structured cabling, from patch cords to patch panels, Siemon Labs invests heavily in R&D and development of industry standards, underlining the company’s long-term commitment to its customers and the industry.

Source: Siemon Adds LC Fiber Optic Adapter Lock to its LockIT™ Line

(The Hosting News) – The agenda is now available for Search Marketing Expo – SMX West 2011. It features 60 sessions, networking activities and keynote addresses. See the agenda athttp://searchmarketingexpo.com/west/agenda.

SMX West will be held March 8-10 in the San Jose Convention Center. The program includes advanced, intermediate and beginner-level sessions on paid search, SEO, social media marketing, analytics and conversions, local, mobile and more.

Conference attendees can customize their own program by selecting from sixty sessions including:

• SEO Myths, Mistakes & The Madness of the Crowds
• Google Instant: 6 Months Later
• Best Practices With Buying Bing & Being On Yahoo
• Don’t Be a Twitter Spammer
• Mobile Apps & How They’re Revolutionizing Search
• Location Services: The New Local Search?
• Building Buzz On Facebook: Getting Liked & Shared

SMX West is programmed by search engine marketing authorities Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman, editors of the industry’s leading news blog, Search Engine Land.

Registration for SMX West is now open at http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west/register. Lowest-available Super Early Bird rates expire on January 8, 2011. Group discounts of up to 35% are also available.

About Search Marketing Expo and Third Door Media

The Search Marketing Expo – SMX conference series is produced by Third Door Media, Inc. Third Door Media’s mission is to empower internet and search marketing professionals by providing trusted content and community services they need to be successful. Search Marketing Expo conferences are held around the world and include: SMX West (San Jose, CA), SMX East (New York City), SMX Advanced (Seattle, WA and London, England), SMX Munich, SMX Toronto, SMX Sydney, SMX Melbourne, SMX Paris and SMX Stockholm.

Third Door Media also publishes Search Engine Land, the leading search marketing news and analysis site. The company also produces Search Marketing Now, a lead-generation marketing solution for suppliers of SEM-related products and services, and operates Sphinn.com, a social news site that allows search and internet marketers to share news stories, participate in subject-specific discussion forums, and build their professional networks.

Source: Search Marketing Expo Agenda Now Available

(The Hosting News) – IBM Researchers  today revealed a previously unknown aspect of key physics inside Racetrack memory — a new technology design which stands to improve memory capabilities within mobile phones, laptop computers and business-class servers. This new class of memory could enable devices to store much more information – as much as a factor of 100 times greater – while using much less energy than today’s designs.

The Racetrack memory project — which started in IBM’s Research labs only six years ago — flips the current memory paradigm on its head. Instead of making computers seek out the data it needs – as is the case in traditional computing systems – IBM’s Racetrack memory automatically moves data to where it can be used, sliding magnetic bits back and forth along nanowire “racetracks.” This technique would allow electronic manufacturers to design a portable device capable of storing all the movies produced worldwide in a given year with room to spare.

Digital data is typically stored in magnetic hard disk drives, which are low-cost but slow due to their moving parts, or in solid state memory such as Flash memory, which are faster but more expensive.  Racetrack memory aims to combine the best attributes of these two types of devices by storing data as magnetic regions – also called domains – in racetracks just a few tens of nanometers wide.

The new understanding, revealed today in the journal Science, allows the precise control of the placement of these domains, which the IBM team has proven can act as nano-sized data keepers that can not only store at least 100 times more memory than today’s techniques, but can be accessed at much greater speeds. By controlling electrical pulses in the device, the scientists can move these domain walls at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour and then stop them precisely at the position needed — allowing massive amounts of stored information to be accessed in less than a billionth of a second.

The full scientific details of the discovery can be read in the scientific paper. In short, the IBM scientists were the first to measure the time and distance of domain wall acceleration and deceleration in response to electric current pulses, which is how digital information is moved and processed in Racetrack memory. This not only gives scientists an unprecedented understanding and control over the magnetic movements inside these devices but also advances IBM’s Racetrack memory — driving it closer to marketplace viability.

“We discovered that domain walls don’t hit peak acceleration as soon as the current is turned on, and that it takes them exactly the same time and distance to hit peak acceleration as it does to decelerate and eventually come to a stop,” said Dr. Stuart Parkin, an IBM Fellow at IBM Research – Almaden. “This was previously undiscovered in part because it was not clear whether the domain walls actually had mass, and how the effects of acceleration and deceleration could exactly compensate one another. Now we know domain walls can be positioned precisely along the racetracks simply by varying the length of the current pulses even though the walls have mass”.

To achieve the densest and fastest possible memory, the domain walls inside the device must be moved at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour to atomically precise positions along the tracks. These timescales (tens of nanoseconds) and distances (micrometers) are surprisingly long, especially since previous experiments had shown no evidence for acceleration and deceleration for domain walls driven along smooth racetracks with current.

A closer look at Racetrack

For nearly fifty years, scientists have explored the possibility of storing information in magnetic domain walls, which are the boundaries between magnetic regions or “domains” in magnetic materials. Until now, manipulating domain walls was expensive, complex and used significant power to generate the fields necessary to do so. In a proof of concept paper in 2008(ii) IBM researchers were the first to demonstrate the potential of Racetrack memory, showing how the use of spin momentum considerably simplifies the memory device.

The details and results of this research effort will be reported in the December 24, 2010 issue of Science. The paper is titled, “Dynamics of magnetic domain walls under their own inertia,” and is authored by Luc Thomas, Rai Moriya, Charles Rettner and Stuart Parkin of IBM Research – Almaden.

For more information about Racetrack Memory, please visit: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/spinaps/research/sd/?racetrack

Source: Discovery Moves Racetrack Memory Closer to Reality

(The Hosting News) – Sentrigo, Inc., the innovator in database security and provider of data protection solutions for the datacenter and the cloud, today announced that it has secured $6 million in a Series C funding round. The round included participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital and Stata Venture Partners, as well as a new strategic investment from Juniper Networks, through the Junos® Innovation Fund. The financing will allow Sentrigo to increase global sales and marketing activities in support of its rapid revenue growth rate, as well as to continue expanding its database security and data integrity solutions for the cloud.
 
“With Juniper’s leadership and focus on securing the next-generation data center, we believe there are significant synergies with companies such as Sentrigo,” said Douglas Murray, senior vice president and general manager, high-end security and services at Juniper Networks. “As the market continues to move toward virtualization and cloud computing, Sentrigo is in a unique position to protect sensitive data, leveraging the strengths of its distributed architecture. We look forward to working with the company through this investment.”

Sentrigo’s suite of database security and compliance solutions includes components for vulnerability assessment, real-time monitoring, virtual patching and low-overhead audit. Sentrigo’s products monitor database threats and activity locally on each database server, allowing efficient and effective operation regardless of the deployment model. Sentrigo Hedgehog Enterprise is designed to protect sensitive data either on premises or in the cloud, from both external attacks as well as misuse by privileged insiders, addressing critical issues related to compliance audits for key industry regulations.

“Sentrigo’s approach to securing sensitive information is a key enabler to cloud computing, allowing organizations to deploy the applications they desire, while maintaining compliance,” said Nathan Shuchami, CEO of Sentrigo.  “We have experienced tremendous growth this year, and as more and more customer infrastructure moves to the cloud, Sentrigo is uniquely positioned to become the leading provider of real-time protection for critical data. Backed by both customer and investor support, we look forward to continuing to innovate with our products, and to bringing their benefits to a wider range of users.”

Source: Sentrigo Raises $6 Million in Series C Financing